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VOL. 44 NO. 10
BIG TIMBER, SWEET GRASS COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT TO
CONGRESS HITS EVERY WAY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—In a*
vigorously worded, personally delivered message, President Roose-
vet Wednesday pointed an enthusiastic congress toward his conception of a permanent recovery
on a new basis.
The president thrust deeply toward some of the recently disclosed practices of big business in
the banking and speculative fields.
He told the joint session of con-
igress that the nation is "definitely in the process of recovery," and
proposed a permanency of the
principles of his monetary, agriculture and industrial programs.
For new fields of immediate effort, he asked "stringent preventive or regulatory measures" in the
nation's business affairs and a
•governmental and public war
-against organized crime.
"I am speaking," said the president In raised voice, "of those individuals who have evaded the
-spirit and purpose of our tax laws,
of those high officials of banks or
•corporations who have grown rich
at the expense of their stockholders or of the public, of those reckless speculators with their own or
other people's money whose operations have injured the values of
the farmer's crops and the savings
of the poor.
"In the other category, crimes
of organized banditry, cold-blooded shooting, lynching and kidnaping have threatened our security.
"These violations of ethics and
these violations of law call on the
strong arm of government for
their immediate suppression; they
call also on the country for an
aroused public opinion."
The presidential message, delivered amid frequent applause and
received with cheers, was general
in score and bore no specific legislative recommendations.
MRS. IDA A. SMITH DIES
AT LIVINGSTON HOME
Mrs. Ida A. Smith, widow of
John T. Smith, for many years one
of the best known and most popular attorneys of eastern Montana,
died in Livingston Friday afternoon at the,home of her eldest
son, Kirk Smith, at the age of 79.
Her husband passed away in California in 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
were natives of Missouri, coming
from Butler, that state, to Montana in 1890. In 1911 Mr. Smith
retired from practice, the firm
continuing as Gibson & Smith, a
younger son, Vard Smith, former
mayor of Livingston, being the
junior member. Funeral services
were held at the Congregational
church in Livingston Sunday afternoon. Deceased was a charter
member of the Yellowstone club
of Livingston, also a member of
the D. A. R.
MARRIAGE PLANS UPSET
BY FATAL ACCIDENT
The president left no doubt that
he wanted the emergency recovery
program continued with necessary
modifications and announced he
would renew direct federal relief
pending the restoration of private
employment.
"We have plowed the furrow," he
said, "and planted the good seed;
the hard beginning is over. If we
would reach the full harvest we
must cultivate the soil where this
plant is reaching up to mature
growth."
Briefly discussing his managed
currency program, Mr. Roosevelt
said it had the purpose of strength
ening the financial structure "and
of arriving eventually at a medium of exchange which will have
over the years less variable purchasing and debt paying power
for our people."
Internal difficulties of some foreign nations, he added, made the
question of stabilization of currencies in the foreign exchange on a
permanent and world-wide basis a
long way off.
He said there had been "great
strides" under the national industrial recovery act and proposed
that this be made a permanent
thing" under the supervision but
not the arbitrary dictation of government itself."
"Actual experience with the operation of the agricultural ad just-
Turn to Page 8, Column 5
Most Disastrous Fire In History Of
Hardin Cost That City Near $50,000
HARDIN, Dec. 30.—The most
disastrous fire in the history of
Hardin broke out in the machine
shop of the Hardin Auto company,
located at the corner of Cheyenne
avenue and Third street, about
1:20 o'clock Saturday morning,
and a couple of hours later the
auto repair shop, the storage garage and the auto salesroom were
in ruins, entailing a loss estimated
at around $50,000. The loss was
partially covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown and it had such a start-
before discovered that the fire
department was unable to extinguish the flames. The frame business office adjoining the brick
structure, was saved by the brick
wall between.
A group of four firemen, playing
the hose on the front, narrowly
escaped injury when without
warning the wall went out and an
iron beam came down, almost upon
them. A shout of warning by a
bystander caused the men to jump
back, and escape injury.
Richard E. Warren, manager of
the Hardin Auto company, stated
that after the fire adjusters get
through appraising the damage,
it is hoped to start the work of
rebuilding.
In the garage at the time of
the fire were several automobiles
and trucks, some of them owned
by the, auto company and others
by private individuals who had
their cars either in the repair
shop or in storage. An oil truck,
loaded with, 1,600 gallons of crude
oil from the Soap Creek oil field,
en route to the refinery at Laurel,
was also destroyed.
CASE OF DR. J. ASHTON BARBOUR WILL
BE HEARD IN HIAWATHA. KANSAS, SOON
SWEET GRASS DRAWS NO.
40 FOR LICENSE PLATES
Listing auto plates by number
of county for this year, Sweet
Grass county plates will bear the
number 40, separated from number
of the license plate/by a dash. Silver Bow county takes No. 1. This
county and Carbon were created
in 1895 in the same bill, but Carbon takes No. 10. Other counties
are numbered as follows: Beaverhead, 18, Big Horn 22, Blaine 24,
Broadwater 43, Carbon 10, Carter
42, Cascade 2, Choteau 19, Custer
14, Daniels 37, Dawson 16, Deer
Lodge 30, Fallon 39, Fergus 8, Flathead 7, Gallatin 6, Garfield 50,
Glacier 38, Goden Valley 53, Gran -.
ite 46, Hill 12, Jefferson 51, Judith
Basin 36, Lake 15, Lewis and Clark
5, Liberty 48, Lincoln 56, Madison
25, McCone 41, Meagher 47, Mineral 54, Missoula 4, Musselshell
23, Park 49, Petroleum 55, Phillips
11, Pondera 26, Powder River 9,
Powell 28, Prairie 45, Ravalli 13,
Richiand 27, Rosebud 29, Roosevelt 17, Sanders 36, Sheridan 34,
Silver Bow 1, Stillwater 32, Sweet
Grass 40, Teton 31, Toole 21, Treasure 33, Valley 20, Wheatland 4,
Wibaux 52, Yellowstone 3.
MILWAUKEE DIGS CRACK
TRAIN OUT OF MUD
BILLINGS, Mont., Dec. 30.—A
burst of rifle bullets from a small
caliber automatic rifle this afternoon fatally wounded Orleno Todd,
23, of this city, a few hours before
he was to be married.
Three bullets pierced his head.
He was found unconscious on a
road near the city limits and died
in a hospital three hours later
without regaining his senses.
His family held he was the victim of a hunting accident. The
driver of a tailor's truck, he had
left the shop early in the afternoon, stopped at a nearby store
for shells and then drove to the
scene of the shooting.
MISSOULA, Mont., Dec. 29.—The
Olympian, crack Milwaukee railway train which had been tied up
by floods and slides for eight days
at Drexel, 85 miles west, was on
its way to Missoula tonight.
The train reached St. Regis over
a repaired roadbed at 11 o'clock,
railroad officials said, and was to
start for Missoula at 12:30.
The train was halted by a washout last Thursday, and shortly
afterward sections of the track
behind were swept away. The 125
passengers walked to St. Regis, 10
miles away, and were transported
to Missoula in automobiles, the
last party arriving Tuesday. Members of the crew and dining car
and Pullman employes have remained with the train since.
MOTHER OF JUDGE BENJAMIN E. BERG
BURIED LAST SUNDAY IN COLUMBUS
Livingston Enterprise: Funeral
services for Mrs. Rachel Berg,
mother of District Judge B. E.
Berg, will be held from the Congregational church hi Columbus
this (Sunday) afternoon at 2:00
o'clock.
Mrs. Berg passed away suddenly
Thursday evening at her home in
Columbus. Her death, it is believed, was caused from cerebral hemorrhage and she pasesd on in her
sleep. Mrs. Berg spent Christmas
day in Livingston at the home of
her son on South Yellowstone
street. She returned to her home
in Columbus on Tuesday and except with a slight ill feeling, was
in the best of health and spirit.
In Columbus, on Wednesday, she
visited with friends and was out
during the day for a dinner engagement with friends and seemed
in good health.
She called several neighbors on
the telephone during the hours of
Thursday and seemed in the best
of spirits.
Friday morning and afternoon,
when her absence was noted by
neighbors, friends entered her
home and found her lying in bed.
She passed in her sleep and doctors said that death was without
feeling. Death apparently occurred Thursday evening.
Mrs. Berg was born in Illinois
74 years ago, and came to Montana in 1897 with her son, Judge
B. E. Berg of this city. The family resided in Red Lodge for some
time and spent some time in California but with this exception,
she has lived in Columbus since
coming to the state. She entered
the hotel business in that city in
1907 and has been actively engaged in business since then.
Judge Berg of Livingston is the
only son. Mrs. Berg leaves a brother in Vallejo, Calif., and two cousins, Marie Gash Patrick of Los
Angeles, Calif., and Grace Borath
of Fairfield, 111.
Mrs. Berg has visited in Livingston at the home of her son on
many occasions and has made a
host of warm personal friends who
were shocked to hear of her sudden death.
Interment will be made in the
Columbus cemetery, 'v V
So many conflicting reports have
been in circulation in this city,
regarding the trouble of Dr. J:
Ashton Barbour, of Hiawatha,
Kan., that the Pioneer has waited
until it could give its readers the
true facts.
The first information came in
the following United Press dispatch from Hiawatha, November
11:
"Hiawatha, Kan., Nov. 11.—Dr.
J. A. Barbour of Hiawatha was
free on bond of $1,500 today after
arraignment on charges of assault
with intent to kill in the shooting
of Undersheriff W. H. Downey.
"Meanwhile Downey remained in
a critical condition in a hospital
at Sabetha. , i
"Authorities said the shooting
was an outgrowth of a quarrel'between the two men over the • alleged attention of Downey to Mrs.
Pearl Davis.
"Barbour said Downey had been
annoying Mrs. Davis, a court
house employee who is a friend of
Barbour, and that he went to the
Downey home to protest about it.
Mrs. Davis was in Barbour's motor
car a few feet from the shooting
and Roy Shelley of Hiawatha was
standing beside the car. 4«
"Taken by ambulance to the;
Sabetha hospital, Downey told Dr.
R. T. Nichols of Hiawatha that he
ordered Barbour off the place and
that when Barbour failed to leave
he warned him to go or he would
arrest him on an intoxication
charge. Barbour contends Downey
precipitated the shooting by striking him in the mouth.
"Dr. Barbour, who was graduated from the Kirksville osteopathic
college in 1924, came here from
Big Timber, Montana."
That night Miss Dorothy Barbour and brother, Odell, left for
Hiawatha in response to a message, Odell remaining in that city.
Miss Dorothy is here, but will
leave for Hiawatha about the 15th
of this month, the case being set
for trial at the February term of
court. She states that Downey,
the wounded under sheriff, died
on the eighth day following the
shooting. A charge of murder in
the first degree was then filed,
and the bond raised from $1,500
to $20,000. An attorney of Hiawatha, another of Topeka, Kan.,
and possibly Judge James F. O'Connor of Livingston will represent the defendant.
Miss Barbour also states that
the under sheriff struck her brother in the face several times, but
that reports that the under sheriff
made several, statements before
his death exonerating her brother
from blame were street rumors
and lacked verification.
POWERFUL SILVER BLOC IS
FORMED IN U. S. SENATE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-A powerful senatorial silver bloc organized today behind a program for
remonetization of the white metal
and claimed enough votes to put
it. through provided President Roosevelt does not come out openly
in opposition.
Disclaiming any attempt to
block the president's silver purchase policy and describing their
proposal as supplementary, 18
senators from the west and south
attended a conference called by
Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.) and
after less than an hour and a half
of discussion unanimously adopted
the following resolution:
"We favor bi-metalism — the
free and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver at a ratio established by law."
Nine other senators were listed
by Wheeler as having approved
the proposal by proxy.
In addition, he claimed 17 others were sympathetic, making a
total of 44 in all, or 11 more than
the vote cast last April for Wheeler's bill for free coinage of silver
at a ratio of 16 to 1 with gold.
Wheeler's bill was defeated then
44 to 33, with 18 not voting.
Among the 44 claimed for free
coinage today were 33 democrats,
10 republicans and one farmer-
labor.
Wheeler said he would intro-
ERIK N. NESTE BURIED AT
SETTLEMENT TUESDAY
ANNUAL MASQUERADE
DREW LARGEST CROWD
Those who never miss a masquerade report the largest crowd
in the history of Big Timber at
the annual New Year's event, at
Masonic hall Saturday evening. It
was not a crowd, just a jam. However, the crowd milled, stepped on
each other and made the best of
it until 3 o'clock the morning following. To the City band honor is
due for the success of the ball,
and to a new five-piece orchestra,
and to those who served a cafeteria lunch credit should also be
given. Judges were: Ladies—Mrs.
Earl Jackson of Livingston, Mrs.
Herman Utermohle and Mrs. Harry Cross. Men—J. L. Harper of
Livingston, C. D. Graff and Guy
F. Skillman.
Prize winners were:
Ladies—Comical, Dorothy Fahlgren; Martha Washington, Adeline Ellison; Negress, Mrs. W. D.
McKenzie; Indian, Mrs. G. Zeleny;
Norwegian, Phyllis Sandsness;
Dutch, Agnes Olson; cow girl,
Frances Thompson; fat woman,
Mrs. Mike Webb; Spanish, Elaine
Baskett; Scotch, Edna Goosey;
best looking, Gladys O'Leary;
Turkish, Vivian Green; original,
Edith Rudd; skating girl, Alice
Peterson; ballet dancer, Beulah
Egstrom; nurse, Edith Campbell;
Japanese girl, Rhea MacFarlane;
pirate, Audrey Dahl; family group,
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Berges and
Mr. and Mrs. L. Solberg; depression, Mrs. David Nevin; old maid,
Opal Drain; Lady Plushbottom,
E. Fahlgren.
Men—George Washington, B. F.
Henry; dude, Jim Brannin: Turk,
Bob Hart; Indian, George Zeleny;
original, Sylvester Lavold; clown,
Floyd Hearn; Prosperity, Art Beley; Jew, Ceryl O'Leary"; Charlie
Chaplin, H. Wheeler; devil, Lee
Esp; tramp, John Nevin; cow boy,
Arvid Larson; Spanish, D. Voges;
pirate, Art Swift; best looking,
Mrs. G. H. Goosey; chauffeur,
Francis Thompson; Dutchman,
Harry Clouse; historical group,
Paul Lamp and family; farmer,
Tom Nevin; Ed Wyn. Marshall
Dryer.
FIFTY DEAD IN FLOODS
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-Tragedy rode
in .on the new year weath _r Monday. In southern Calf ornia a death
toll mounted toward 50 in the(
lowland areas as a result of torrential rains that tiled up at
least 12 inches of rain In 24 hours.1
Elsewhere over the nation was!
a medley of bad weather with the:
mercury poised for another downward dip.
BANK DEPOSITS NOW
ARE GUARANTEED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—President Roosevelt was informed Monday night that 97 per cent of the
nation's bank depositors would be
insured under the new deposit insurance which becomes effective
Tuesday.
Walter J. Cummings, chairman
of the federal deposit insurance
corporation, reported to Mr. Roosevelt deposits of 13,423 banks will
be insured.
He said only 141 banks had been
found ineligible and predicted a
number of them might be insured
by making certain corrections.'
Thus, Tuesday for the first
time in American history depositors of sums up to $2,500 will be
insured against loss.
After July 1, this insurance will
be increased to $10,000.
"I congratulate you," wrote
President Roosevelt in response to
the report of Cummings, and E.
G. Bennett and J. F. T. O'Connor, "because you have in these
few months accomplished with
complete success a gigantic task
which the pessimists said could
not possibly be done before January 1. That 97 per cent of the
bank depositors of the nation are
insured will give renewed faith.
"I am also happy to know of
the fine cooperation given you by
the reconstruction finance corporation."
All national banks and members
of the federal reserve system are
automatically insured under the
new federal law.
To become members of the federal insurance guarantee, state
banks were required to meet rigid
conditions by the federal authorities.
The reconstruction finance corporation opened its vaults to sound
institutions requiring additional
backing.
By the purchase of this capital
stock in many institutions, the
government has perhaps the
greatest interest in and control
over the banking structure of the
nation in recent history.
Erik N. Neste, an old and highly respected pioneer of the Melville country, passed Friday evening following a stroke. Burial was
in the Settlement cemetery Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A. A. Holbeck
of the Lutheran church conducting the service. Pallbearers were
Tom Anderson, Adolph and Anton
Tronrud, J. H. Gunderson, C. M.
Rein, H. J. Sandsness. Deceased
was born in Valdris, Norway, May
26, 1855. Came to America in 1881,
residing near Fargo, N. D., where
he followed the carpenter trade;
then to .Rapids, Mont., then to
Melville where he resided on Otter
creek for 45 years. He married.
Marit Haugrud in Norway in _880.
Of the union there was born six
children of whom the following
are living and were present at
the funeral: Mrs. Emil Johnson of
Great Falls, Mrs. Carl Alquist of
Dillon, Mrs. Ingvald Espe of Big
Timber, Peter Neste of Melville,
Mrs. Lawrence Peterson of Melville. A brother, Gullick Jacobson.
and a sister. Mrs. Gertrude Christiansen of Twodot, also survive.
Mrs. Neste passed on several years
ago.
BUYING INDICATES MUCH
IMPROVED CONDITIONS
FINNEY DRAWS LONG
TERM IN BOND SCANDAL
TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 2.—Ronald
Finney, central figure in the Kansas million-dollar bond scandal
who;""pleaded guilty to 31 counts
•charging ,bond forgery, was sen-
te.ncfed late. Tuesday to a peniten-
jtUry term totaling 31 to 635 years.
■Finney's; attorneys served notice
the .bond,, broker, would appeal the
of .the sentence.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Following
the' best volume of Christmas buying since 1928 in many districts,
business was further stimulated
in the past week by fresh merchandise demands incident to the
widespread wintry weather, Dun
& Bradstreet said in their weekly
trade review today.
"Cheerfulness over the outlook,"
said the report, "is especially
marked in country districts where
the steady flow of checks to farmers co-operating with the A. A. A.
in the crop adjustment program
has pushed buying power ahead.
"Largely disregarding seasonal
influences, the leading industrial
indices display a heartening stability for the close of the year.
The lull in retail buying which
usually sets in immediately following Christmas was not marked
this year."
duce his 16 to 1 bill on the opening day of congress next Wednesday and predicted it would pass
if the president refrained from
expressing open opposition. He
also forecast similar action by the
house if a vote could be had there.
Senator King (D., Utah) was
named to transmit the group's
views to the president.
A definite ratio was not incorporated in the conference resolution, senators said, because it was
not known how far the president
would go in devaluing the dollar
by his gold purchases.
Senator Borah (R., Ida.), among
those attending the meeting, said
the "only question of debate"
would be the ratio. __
"This will be difficult to establish • while, the president's gold
program continues and provided
devaluation is the goal," he added.
"I don't anticipate, however, that
this gold program Is going to continue indefinitely. The conference
felt it should leave the ratio question open, but had it been decided
we would have agreed on 16 to 1."
Borah voted against Wheeler's
bill last session on the theory that
the "safe and sound" way to accomplish remonetization was by
international agreement. He believed Mr. Roosevelt felt the same
way about it.
He said he still held to that
view, but was satisfied there could
be no such agreement and that
the United States was not trying
to accomplish one.
"I am therefore willing to undertake to work out a program by
which we would go it alone. In
my opinion we are up to the
point where the world must consider either remonetization of silver or paper money. I favor a
monetary system with a metallic
base. We can work out a plan
utilizing silver on such a metallic
base."
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CWA PAY CHECKS DO
GOOD BUSINESS HERE
The largest payday to Civil
Works Administration workers in
-this city .and county .was Friday
of last week*, tne'sum of $3,999J25
being paid out in checks. Merchants report a fairly good trade,
but better still that many small
bills were taken up by those who
had been carried for some time.
Monday was a legal holiday for
the men and no work was done,
but this week the entire force is
working an hour extra each day
to get in a full week. It is also
worthy of mention that beer
places are receiving a lesser trade
than exepected, evidence that
many are paying their bills and
storing the balance for a period
of idleness to follow, probably after the 15th of February.
YOUNG MAN KILLED IN
ACCIDENT AT WIBAUX
WIBAUX, Jan. 2.—Donald F.
Parker, 21,. was fatally injured
Monday night when a car in which
he was riding crashed into a telephone pole and overturned.
The driver, a salesman, failed
to make a turn coming into Wibaux from the west. He escaped
uninjured, while a young woman
who was accompanying the salesman and Parker is reported in
serious condition in a local hospital.
Mr. Parker was employed as a
stenographer by M. P." Ostby, county agent, but had received an appointment that day to a civil
service position with headquarters
at Great Falls.
CITY OF BUTTE FETES FRANK WALKER
INTIMATE FRIEND OF F. D. ROOSEVELT
BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 30.—Frank
C. Walker, former Butte attorney,
who is President Roosevelt's right
hand man in his capacity as executive director of the national
recovery council, was feted here
today by Montanans from many
cities.
More than 300 attended a testimonial dinner held at the Fin-
len hotel, leaders of the state including Governor Frank H. Cooney, being among the speakers.
During the dinner a message came
from President Roosevelt in which
the chief executive said:
"I wish I could be with Frank's
old friends and have a part in the
justly earned tribute to him. His
home folks have every reason to
feel proud of him and I want you
to know how much I appreciate
his fine loyal service tp me and
the government."
Senator Harry A. Gallwey was
toastmaster and referred to Mr.
/Walker's early life in .Butte and
tjie fact that the president of the
United States has chosen the son
of a Butte miner for one of the
high posts in the administration.
Governor Cooney, an old friend,
told the gathering of Montanans
how Frank Walker had his first
job as grocery wagon driver for
the future governor.
Others, including E. G. Leip-
heimer, editor of The Montana
Standard, and Senator Charles R.
Leonard, referred to Mr. Walker's
earlier days as a "cub" reporter
and young attorney here. James
H. Rowe, J. R. Hobbins, Senator
Tom Larsen and others spoke.
They all lauded Mr Walker's sterling accomplishments and referred to the great part he is playing in the national recovery, program.
Mr. Walker, in expressing, his
appreciation, covered briefly the
w.ork that has been done by the
various departments of the/recovery administration. '"•'
Mr. Walker is visiting relatives
here during the, holidays' and will
return Tuesday to Washington.
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VOL. 44 NO. 10
BIG TIMBER, SWEET GRASS COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT TO
CONGRESS HITS EVERY WAY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—In a*
vigorously worded, personally delivered message, President Roose-
vet Wednesday pointed an enthusiastic congress toward his conception of a permanent recovery
on a new basis.
The president thrust deeply toward some of the recently disclosed practices of big business in
the banking and speculative fields.
He told the joint session of con-
igress that the nation is "definitely in the process of recovery" and
proposed a permanency of the
principles of his monetary, agriculture and industrial programs.
For new fields of immediate effort, he asked "stringent preventive or regulatory measures" in the
nation's business affairs and a
•governmental and public war
-against organized crime.
"I am speaking" said the president In raised voice, "of those individuals who have evaded the
-spirit and purpose of our tax laws,
of those high officials of banks or
•corporations who have grown rich
at the expense of their stockholders or of the public, of those reckless speculators with their own or
other people's money whose operations have injured the values of
the farmer's crops and the savings
of the poor.
"In the other category, crimes
of organized banditry, cold-blooded shooting, lynching and kidnaping have threatened our security.
"These violations of ethics and
these violations of law call on the
strong arm of government for
their immediate suppression; they
call also on the country for an
aroused public opinion."
The presidential message, delivered amid frequent applause and
received with cheers, was general
in score and bore no specific legislative recommendations.
MRS. IDA A. SMITH DIES
AT LIVINGSTON HOME
Mrs. Ida A. Smith, widow of
John T. Smith, for many years one
of the best known and most popular attorneys of eastern Montana,
died in Livingston Friday afternoon at the,home of her eldest
son, Kirk Smith, at the age of 79.
Her husband passed away in California in 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
were natives of Missouri, coming
from Butler, that state, to Montana in 1890. In 1911 Mr. Smith
retired from practice, the firm
continuing as Gibson & Smith, a
younger son, Vard Smith, former
mayor of Livingston, being the
junior member. Funeral services
were held at the Congregational
church in Livingston Sunday afternoon. Deceased was a charter
member of the Yellowstone club
of Livingston, also a member of
the D. A. R.
MARRIAGE PLANS UPSET
BY FATAL ACCIDENT
The president left no doubt that
he wanted the emergency recovery
program continued with necessary
modifications and announced he
would renew direct federal relief
pending the restoration of private
employment.
"We have plowed the furrow" he
said, "and planted the good seed;
the hard beginning is over. If we
would reach the full harvest we
must cultivate the soil where this
plant is reaching up to mature
growth."
Briefly discussing his managed
currency program, Mr. Roosevelt
said it had the purpose of strength
ening the financial structure "and
of arriving eventually at a medium of exchange which will have
over the years less variable purchasing and debt paying power
for our people."
Internal difficulties of some foreign nations, he added, made the
question of stabilization of currencies in the foreign exchange on a
permanent and world-wide basis a
long way off.
He said there had been "great
strides" under the national industrial recovery act and proposed
that this be made a permanent
thing" under the supervision but
not the arbitrary dictation of government itself."
"Actual experience with the operation of the agricultural ad just-
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Most Disastrous Fire In History Of
Hardin Cost That City Near $50,000
HARDIN, Dec. 30.—The most
disastrous fire in the history of
Hardin broke out in the machine
shop of the Hardin Auto company,
located at the corner of Cheyenne
avenue and Third street, about
1:20 o'clock Saturday morning,
and a couple of hours later the
auto repair shop, the storage garage and the auto salesroom were
in ruins, entailing a loss estimated
at around $50,000. The loss was
partially covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown and it had such a start-
before discovered that the fire
department was unable to extinguish the flames. The frame business office adjoining the brick
structure, was saved by the brick
wall between.
A group of four firemen, playing
the hose on the front, narrowly
escaped injury when without
warning the wall went out and an
iron beam came down, almost upon
them. A shout of warning by a
bystander caused the men to jump
back, and escape injury.
Richard E. Warren, manager of
the Hardin Auto company, stated
that after the fire adjusters get
through appraising the damage,
it is hoped to start the work of
rebuilding.
In the garage at the time of
the fire were several automobiles
and trucks, some of them owned
by the, auto company and others
by private individuals who had
their cars either in the repair
shop or in storage. An oil truck,
loaded with, 1,600 gallons of crude
oil from the Soap Creek oil field,
en route to the refinery at Laurel,
was also destroyed.
CASE OF DR. J. ASHTON BARBOUR WILL
BE HEARD IN HIAWATHA. KANSAS, SOON
SWEET GRASS DRAWS NO.
40 FOR LICENSE PLATES
Listing auto plates by number
of county for this year, Sweet
Grass county plates will bear the
number 40, separated from number
of the license plate/by a dash. Silver Bow county takes No. 1. This
county and Carbon were created
in 1895 in the same bill, but Carbon takes No. 10. Other counties
are numbered as follows: Beaverhead, 18, Big Horn 22, Blaine 24,
Broadwater 43, Carbon 10, Carter
42, Cascade 2, Choteau 19, Custer
14, Daniels 37, Dawson 16, Deer
Lodge 30, Fallon 39, Fergus 8, Flathead 7, Gallatin 6, Garfield 50,
Glacier 38, Goden Valley 53, Gran -.
ite 46, Hill 12, Jefferson 51, Judith
Basin 36, Lake 15, Lewis and Clark
5, Liberty 48, Lincoln 56, Madison
25, McCone 41, Meagher 47, Mineral 54, Missoula 4, Musselshell
23, Park 49, Petroleum 55, Phillips
11, Pondera 26, Powder River 9,
Powell 28, Prairie 45, Ravalli 13,
Richiand 27, Rosebud 29, Roosevelt 17, Sanders 36, Sheridan 34,
Silver Bow 1, Stillwater 32, Sweet
Grass 40, Teton 31, Toole 21, Treasure 33, Valley 20, Wheatland 4,
Wibaux 52, Yellowstone 3.
MILWAUKEE DIGS CRACK
TRAIN OUT OF MUD
BILLINGS, Mont., Dec. 30.—A
burst of rifle bullets from a small
caliber automatic rifle this afternoon fatally wounded Orleno Todd,
23, of this city, a few hours before
he was to be married.
Three bullets pierced his head.
He was found unconscious on a
road near the city limits and died
in a hospital three hours later
without regaining his senses.
His family held he was the victim of a hunting accident. The
driver of a tailor's truck, he had
left the shop early in the afternoon, stopped at a nearby store
for shells and then drove to the
scene of the shooting.
MISSOULA, Mont., Dec. 29.—The
Olympian, crack Milwaukee railway train which had been tied up
by floods and slides for eight days
at Drexel, 85 miles west, was on
its way to Missoula tonight.
The train reached St. Regis over
a repaired roadbed at 11 o'clock,
railroad officials said, and was to
start for Missoula at 12:30.
The train was halted by a washout last Thursday, and shortly
afterward sections of the track
behind were swept away. The 125
passengers walked to St. Regis, 10
miles away, and were transported
to Missoula in automobiles, the
last party arriving Tuesday. Members of the crew and dining car
and Pullman employes have remained with the train since.
MOTHER OF JUDGE BENJAMIN E. BERG
BURIED LAST SUNDAY IN COLUMBUS
Livingston Enterprise: Funeral
services for Mrs. Rachel Berg,
mother of District Judge B. E.
Berg, will be held from the Congregational church hi Columbus
this (Sunday) afternoon at 2:00
o'clock.
Mrs. Berg passed away suddenly
Thursday evening at her home in
Columbus. Her death, it is believed, was caused from cerebral hemorrhage and she pasesd on in her
sleep. Mrs. Berg spent Christmas
day in Livingston at the home of
her son on South Yellowstone
street. She returned to her home
in Columbus on Tuesday and except with a slight ill feeling, was
in the best of health and spirit.
In Columbus, on Wednesday, she
visited with friends and was out
during the day for a dinner engagement with friends and seemed
in good health.
She called several neighbors on
the telephone during the hours of
Thursday and seemed in the best
of spirits.
Friday morning and afternoon,
when her absence was noted by
neighbors, friends entered her
home and found her lying in bed.
She passed in her sleep and doctors said that death was without
feeling. Death apparently occurred Thursday evening.
Mrs. Berg was born in Illinois
74 years ago, and came to Montana in 1897 with her son, Judge
B. E. Berg of this city. The family resided in Red Lodge for some
time and spent some time in California but with this exception,
she has lived in Columbus since
coming to the state. She entered
the hotel business in that city in
1907 and has been actively engaged in business since then.
Judge Berg of Livingston is the
only son. Mrs. Berg leaves a brother in Vallejo, Calif., and two cousins, Marie Gash Patrick of Los
Angeles, Calif., and Grace Borath
of Fairfield, 111.
Mrs. Berg has visited in Livingston at the home of her son on
many occasions and has made a
host of warm personal friends who
were shocked to hear of her sudden death.
Interment will be made in the
Columbus cemetery, 'v V
So many conflicting reports have
been in circulation in this city,
regarding the trouble of Dr. J:
Ashton Barbour, of Hiawatha,
Kan., that the Pioneer has waited
until it could give its readers the
true facts.
The first information came in
the following United Press dispatch from Hiawatha, November
11:
"Hiawatha, Kan., Nov. 11.—Dr.
J. A. Barbour of Hiawatha was
free on bond of $1,500 today after
arraignment on charges of assault
with intent to kill in the shooting
of Undersheriff W. H. Downey.
"Meanwhile Downey remained in
a critical condition in a hospital
at Sabetha. , i
"Authorities said the shooting
was an outgrowth of a quarrel'between the two men over the • alleged attention of Downey to Mrs.
Pearl Davis.
"Barbour said Downey had been
annoying Mrs. Davis, a court
house employee who is a friend of
Barbour, and that he went to the
Downey home to protest about it.
Mrs. Davis was in Barbour's motor
car a few feet from the shooting
and Roy Shelley of Hiawatha was
standing beside the car. 4«
"Taken by ambulance to the;
Sabetha hospital, Downey told Dr.
R. T. Nichols of Hiawatha that he
ordered Barbour off the place and
that when Barbour failed to leave
he warned him to go or he would
arrest him on an intoxication
charge. Barbour contends Downey
precipitated the shooting by striking him in the mouth.
"Dr. Barbour, who was graduated from the Kirksville osteopathic
college in 1924, came here from
Big Timber, Montana."
That night Miss Dorothy Barbour and brother, Odell, left for
Hiawatha in response to a message, Odell remaining in that city.
Miss Dorothy is here, but will
leave for Hiawatha about the 15th
of this month, the case being set
for trial at the February term of
court. She states that Downey,
the wounded under sheriff, died
on the eighth day following the
shooting. A charge of murder in
the first degree was then filed,
and the bond raised from $1,500
to $20,000. An attorney of Hiawatha, another of Topeka, Kan.,
and possibly Judge James F. O'Connor of Livingston will represent the defendant.
Miss Barbour also states that
the under sheriff struck her brother in the face several times, but
that reports that the under sheriff
made several, statements before
his death exonerating her brother
from blame were street rumors
and lacked verification.
POWERFUL SILVER BLOC IS
FORMED IN U. S. SENATE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-A powerful senatorial silver bloc organized today behind a program for
remonetization of the white metal
and claimed enough votes to put
it. through provided President Roosevelt does not come out openly
in opposition.
Disclaiming any attempt to
block the president's silver purchase policy and describing their
proposal as supplementary, 18
senators from the west and south
attended a conference called by
Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.) and
after less than an hour and a half
of discussion unanimously adopted
the following resolution:
"We favor bi-metalism — the
free and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver at a ratio established by law."
Nine other senators were listed
by Wheeler as having approved
the proposal by proxy.
In addition, he claimed 17 others were sympathetic, making a
total of 44 in all, or 11 more than
the vote cast last April for Wheeler's bill for free coinage of silver
at a ratio of 16 to 1 with gold.
Wheeler's bill was defeated then
44 to 33, with 18 not voting.
Among the 44 claimed for free
coinage today were 33 democrats,
10 republicans and one farmer-
labor.
Wheeler said he would intro-
ERIK N. NESTE BURIED AT
SETTLEMENT TUESDAY
ANNUAL MASQUERADE
DREW LARGEST CROWD
Those who never miss a masquerade report the largest crowd
in the history of Big Timber at
the annual New Year's event, at
Masonic hall Saturday evening. It
was not a crowd, just a jam. However, the crowd milled, stepped on
each other and made the best of
it until 3 o'clock the morning following. To the City band honor is
due for the success of the ball,
and to a new five-piece orchestra,
and to those who served a cafeteria lunch credit should also be
given. Judges were: Ladies—Mrs.
Earl Jackson of Livingston, Mrs.
Herman Utermohle and Mrs. Harry Cross. Men—J. L. Harper of
Livingston, C. D. Graff and Guy
F. Skillman.
Prize winners were:
Ladies—Comical, Dorothy Fahlgren; Martha Washington, Adeline Ellison; Negress, Mrs. W. D.
McKenzie; Indian, Mrs. G. Zeleny;
Norwegian, Phyllis Sandsness;
Dutch, Agnes Olson; cow girl,
Frances Thompson; fat woman,
Mrs. Mike Webb; Spanish, Elaine
Baskett; Scotch, Edna Goosey;
best looking, Gladys O'Leary;
Turkish, Vivian Green; original,
Edith Rudd; skating girl, Alice
Peterson; ballet dancer, Beulah
Egstrom; nurse, Edith Campbell;
Japanese girl, Rhea MacFarlane;
pirate, Audrey Dahl; family group,
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Berges and
Mr. and Mrs. L. Solberg; depression, Mrs. David Nevin; old maid,
Opal Drain; Lady Plushbottom,
E. Fahlgren.
Men—George Washington, B. F.
Henry; dude, Jim Brannin: Turk,
Bob Hart; Indian, George Zeleny;
original, Sylvester Lavold; clown,
Floyd Hearn; Prosperity, Art Beley; Jew, Ceryl O'Leary"; Charlie
Chaplin, H. Wheeler; devil, Lee
Esp; tramp, John Nevin; cow boy,
Arvid Larson; Spanish, D. Voges;
pirate, Art Swift; best looking,
Mrs. G. H. Goosey; chauffeur,
Francis Thompson; Dutchman,
Harry Clouse; historical group,
Paul Lamp and family; farmer,
Tom Nevin; Ed Wyn. Marshall
Dryer.
FIFTY DEAD IN FLOODS
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-Tragedy rode
in .on the new year weath _r Monday. In southern Calf ornia a death
toll mounted toward 50 in the(
lowland areas as a result of torrential rains that tiled up at
least 12 inches of rain In 24 hours.1
Elsewhere over the nation was!
a medley of bad weather with the:
mercury poised for another downward dip.
BANK DEPOSITS NOW
ARE GUARANTEED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—President Roosevelt was informed Monday night that 97 per cent of the
nation's bank depositors would be
insured under the new deposit insurance which becomes effective
Tuesday.
Walter J. Cummings, chairman
of the federal deposit insurance
corporation, reported to Mr. Roosevelt deposits of 13,423 banks will
be insured.
He said only 141 banks had been
found ineligible and predicted a
number of them might be insured
by making certain corrections.'
Thus, Tuesday for the first
time in American history depositors of sums up to $2,500 will be
insured against loss.
After July 1, this insurance will
be increased to $10,000.
"I congratulate you" wrote
President Roosevelt in response to
the report of Cummings, and E.
G. Bennett and J. F. T. O'Connor, "because you have in these
few months accomplished with
complete success a gigantic task
which the pessimists said could
not possibly be done before January 1. That 97 per cent of the
bank depositors of the nation are
insured will give renewed faith.
"I am also happy to know of
the fine cooperation given you by
the reconstruction finance corporation."
All national banks and members
of the federal reserve system are
automatically insured under the
new federal law.
To become members of the federal insurance guarantee, state
banks were required to meet rigid
conditions by the federal authorities.
The reconstruction finance corporation opened its vaults to sound
institutions requiring additional
backing.
By the purchase of this capital
stock in many institutions, the
government has perhaps the
greatest interest in and control
over the banking structure of the
nation in recent history.
Erik N. Neste, an old and highly respected pioneer of the Melville country, passed Friday evening following a stroke. Burial was
in the Settlement cemetery Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A. A. Holbeck
of the Lutheran church conducting the service. Pallbearers were
Tom Anderson, Adolph and Anton
Tronrud, J. H. Gunderson, C. M.
Rein, H. J. Sandsness. Deceased
was born in Valdris, Norway, May
26, 1855. Came to America in 1881,
residing near Fargo, N. D., where
he followed the carpenter trade;
then to .Rapids, Mont., then to
Melville where he resided on Otter
creek for 45 years. He married.
Marit Haugrud in Norway in _880.
Of the union there was born six
children of whom the following
are living and were present at
the funeral: Mrs. Emil Johnson of
Great Falls, Mrs. Carl Alquist of
Dillon, Mrs. Ingvald Espe of Big
Timber, Peter Neste of Melville,
Mrs. Lawrence Peterson of Melville. A brother, Gullick Jacobson.
and a sister. Mrs. Gertrude Christiansen of Twodot, also survive.
Mrs. Neste passed on several years
ago.
BUYING INDICATES MUCH
IMPROVED CONDITIONS
FINNEY DRAWS LONG
TERM IN BOND SCANDAL
TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 2.—Ronald
Finney, central figure in the Kansas million-dollar bond scandal
who;""pleaded guilty to 31 counts
•charging ,bond forgery, was sen-
te.ncfed late. Tuesday to a peniten-
jtUry term totaling 31 to 635 years.
■Finney's; attorneys served notice
the .bond,, broker, would appeal the
of .the sentence.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Following
the' best volume of Christmas buying since 1928 in many districts,
business was further stimulated
in the past week by fresh merchandise demands incident to the
widespread wintry weather, Dun
& Bradstreet said in their weekly
trade review today.
"Cheerfulness over the outlook"
said the report, "is especially
marked in country districts where
the steady flow of checks to farmers co-operating with the A. A. A.
in the crop adjustment program
has pushed buying power ahead.
"Largely disregarding seasonal
influences, the leading industrial
indices display a heartening stability for the close of the year.
The lull in retail buying which
usually sets in immediately following Christmas was not marked
this year."
duce his 16 to 1 bill on the opening day of congress next Wednesday and predicted it would pass
if the president refrained from
expressing open opposition. He
also forecast similar action by the
house if a vote could be had there.
Senator King (D., Utah) was
named to transmit the group's
views to the president.
A definite ratio was not incorporated in the conference resolution, senators said, because it was
not known how far the president
would go in devaluing the dollar
by his gold purchases.
Senator Borah (R., Ida.), among
those attending the meeting, said
the "only question of debate"
would be the ratio. __
"This will be difficult to establish • while, the president's gold
program continues and provided
devaluation is the goal" he added.
"I don't anticipate, however, that
this gold program Is going to continue indefinitely. The conference
felt it should leave the ratio question open, but had it been decided
we would have agreed on 16 to 1."
Borah voted against Wheeler's
bill last session on the theory that
the "safe and sound" way to accomplish remonetization was by
international agreement. He believed Mr. Roosevelt felt the same
way about it.
He said he still held to that
view, but was satisfied there could
be no such agreement and that
the United States was not trying
to accomplish one.
"I am therefore willing to undertake to work out a program by
which we would go it alone. In
my opinion we are up to the
point where the world must consider either remonetization of silver or paper money. I favor a
monetary system with a metallic
base. We can work out a plan
utilizing silver on such a metallic
base."
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CWA PAY CHECKS DO
GOOD BUSINESS HERE
The largest payday to Civil
Works Administration workers in
-this city .and county .was Friday
of last week*, tne'sum of $3,999J25
being paid out in checks. Merchants report a fairly good trade,
but better still that many small
bills were taken up by those who
had been carried for some time.
Monday was a legal holiday for
the men and no work was done,
but this week the entire force is
working an hour extra each day
to get in a full week. It is also
worthy of mention that beer
places are receiving a lesser trade
than exepected, evidence that
many are paying their bills and
storing the balance for a period
of idleness to follow, probably after the 15th of February.
YOUNG MAN KILLED IN
ACCIDENT AT WIBAUX
WIBAUX, Jan. 2.—Donald F.
Parker, 21,. was fatally injured
Monday night when a car in which
he was riding crashed into a telephone pole and overturned.
The driver, a salesman, failed
to make a turn coming into Wibaux from the west. He escaped
uninjured, while a young woman
who was accompanying the salesman and Parker is reported in
serious condition in a local hospital.
Mr. Parker was employed as a
stenographer by M. P." Ostby, county agent, but had received an appointment that day to a civil
service position with headquarters
at Great Falls.
CITY OF BUTTE FETES FRANK WALKER
INTIMATE FRIEND OF F. D. ROOSEVELT
BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 30.—Frank
C. Walker, former Butte attorney,
who is President Roosevelt's right
hand man in his capacity as executive director of the national
recovery council, was feted here
today by Montanans from many
cities.
More than 300 attended a testimonial dinner held at the Fin-
len hotel, leaders of the state including Governor Frank H. Cooney, being among the speakers.
During the dinner a message came
from President Roosevelt in which
the chief executive said:
"I wish I could be with Frank's
old friends and have a part in the
justly earned tribute to him. His
home folks have every reason to
feel proud of him and I want you
to know how much I appreciate
his fine loyal service tp me and
the government."
Senator Harry A. Gallwey was
toastmaster and referred to Mr.
/Walker's early life in .Butte and
tjie fact that the president of the
United States has chosen the son
of a Butte miner for one of the
high posts in the administration.
Governor Cooney, an old friend,
told the gathering of Montanans
how Frank Walker had his first
job as grocery wagon driver for
the future governor.
Others, including E. G. Leip-
heimer, editor of The Montana
Standard, and Senator Charles R.
Leonard, referred to Mr. Walker's
earlier days as a "cub" reporter
and young attorney here. James
H. Rowe, J. R. Hobbins, Senator
Tom Larsen and others spoke.
They all lauded Mr Walker's sterling accomplishments and referred to the great part he is playing in the national recovery, program.
Mr. Walker, in expressing, his
appreciation, covered briefly the
w.ork that has been done by the
various departments of the/recovery administration. '"•'
Mr. Walker is visiting relatives
here during the, holidays' and will
return Tuesday to Washington.
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